bethany102399
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Post by bethany102399 on Jun 23, 2024 19:53:09 GMT
My bank has a machine that will count it. They don’t take a percentage like the grocery store machines do. So does ours. At one point they refused to take rolled coins, they'd unroll it and put it into the machine so we stopped bothering to roll them. You pour the coins into the machine and it gives you a receipt telling you how much you have. then you take that to the counter and they'll give you the cash or deposit it into your account. when mom died we found at least 6 or 7 change jars around the house. She'd fill one, then move on to the next. Between arthritis in her hands (she couldn't lift the jar) and her local bank's coin machine always being broken she just never bothered to take them to the bank. We also found 40 bucks hidden with dad's wedding ring in the basement. She was prepared for the apocalypse that's for sure. |
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Post by peasapie on Jun 23, 2024 20:00:49 GMT
Yes. Mine is a small milk bottle. For some reason my husband insists on using change (including pennies) if we go out for ice cream.
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Post by worrywart on Jun 23, 2024 20:12:49 GMT
yes - I don't put change in it but dh does. when it is full we bag it up in ziplocs and go to the coinstar machine that gives GC's (no charge) and get a GC for Amazon. Then come home with the slip and add the money to my amazon account.
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milocat
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Post by milocat on Jun 23, 2024 20:19:34 GMT
Never have, would just use it. If you do collect change here you could have a lot of money since we have $1 and $2 coins. Even just in my change purse I've easily had $20.
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compeateropeator
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Post by compeateropeator on Jun 23, 2024 20:27:22 GMT
I am weird. I love to roll coins, not sure why but I find it cathartic. 😆 so I have a change bowl and roll it every now and then and then just pile up the rolled coin in a container.
I do realize it is probably not prudent to just hang on to it so when I get I good amount I bring it to the bank and/or use it for something specific.
Many of of the tellers are not happy to take rolled coin and make sure to let me know they do have a coin machine to save me from doing all this work. I thank them and them and let them know I prefer to roll it. But if they would like me to take it to the machine and unroll and use it I would be happy to. No one has taken me up on that yet.
I am getting past the 400.00 so need to do it again.
ETA - I haven’t read the responses yet. Hopefully there are others that are like me. I only read do you have a change jar and got excited and had to respond immediately. 😆
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christinec68
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Post by christinec68 on Jun 23, 2024 20:34:13 GMT
We toss our change in a bank coin bag. I don’t think DH accumulates much change but I’m probably good for $2-3 a week. We usually cash it in before we go on vacation at our credit union. They have a free coin counting machine. I think the most we turned in was about $650.
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Post by compeateropeator on Jun 23, 2024 20:43:47 GMT
I do not accumulate anywhere near the amount of change that I use to, but I still use cash fairly frequently or at least for some things.
I use a bowl for silver (all specials, dollar, half dollars, etc are in bags.).
I use a skippy glass peanut butter Jar shaped like a bear that was made to be a bank when you were done with the peanut butter for my pennies. But the pennies go in the bowl first so I can look to see if the are wheat pennies before I transfer to the bear. I really need to bring those in as I know there is a shortage and it cost like 2 cents to make a penny now days.
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Post by Zee on Jun 23, 2024 21:12:26 GMT
I used to, but I pretty much never have cash anymore so it rarely gets added to. I think I've used cash about 3x since 2020.
I used to cash it out when it got full and the kids and I would use it to have a little fun lunch date or whatever. It was mostly change I found in DH pockets or on the dresser, etc from his breakfasts and lunches or our change from a drive thru.
He really doesn't use cash anymore either.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 23, 2024 22:04:06 GMT
Long ago when I was a poll clerk, working primaries was a very long boring day... My DS was moving and gave me Playmate cooler, the little one, full of pennies. A few of the other poll clerks and I spent a good portion of the day at the polls rolling pennies. Net worth?
$77.00..
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twinsmomfla99
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Jun 23, 2024 22:14:14 GMT
Several: in my bedroom, the kitchen, the laundry room, the bathroom—basically any room in which we might be emptying our pockets.
DH collects from all of them when he sees one is getting full. He used to wrap the coins, but now he just takes it to the bank and dumps it in the coin counter.
It takes a lot longer to fill the jars since we use apps to pay for fast food and cards for most store purchases.
I can probably downsize to coin cups instead of jars LOL.
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Post by peano on Jun 23, 2024 23:06:57 GMT
Yes, several in different rooms because DH is forever leaving a trail of change in his wake.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 23, 2024 23:17:29 GMT
No I don't because I pretty much never use cash.
I have the digital version of a change jar though - one of my bank accounts is set up so that it rounds up every purchase to the nearest dollar, and then that "change" goes into a separate savings account. So just say I use my Visa Debit card to buy groceries worth $65.27, then 73c goes into the separate account. It's so cool!
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Post by brynn on Jun 23, 2024 23:24:27 GMT
A large, plastic Coca-Cola bottle, which originally held a $200 cash prize that my grandmother won. I'll probably never get it filled, but kids are fascinated by it.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jun 24, 2024 2:29:54 GMT
I use to, but I don't anymore.
The bank got rid of the "free" cash in machine (was only free, if the funds were deposited into my account).
I don't want to do the cash in for a gift card and I don't want to pay fees to cash in. I don't want to roll coins.
I am a cash user, so always get coins as change back.
If possible, I try to give the necessary coins (.27 cents, .68cents, etc).....but I try to be courteous and not hold up the line if there is one.
I started putting the coins in a baggie....if the self check is not busy, then I will stand there with my baggie full of coins and feed the coins in. I don't do it, if the self checks are full and busy.
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Post by Sarah*H on Jun 24, 2024 2:44:39 GMT
I'm the worst. I have two overflowing Mason jars. And also a whole plastic bin of wrapped coins - something like $400 from the last time I bothered to wrap the coins in the change jars. I never go into the bank and I will not pay the Coinstar surcharge. I have always joked that we'll just keep letting it accumulate and eventually take a big family vacation.
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hannahruth
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Post by hannahruth on Jun 24, 2024 5:23:26 GMT
Yes I have one but using less and less cash means it is not filling as it used to.
As our $1.00 and $2.00 are coins my purse gets quite heavy so I do empty them every day or so.
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Post by seaexplore on Jun 24, 2024 5:30:11 GMT
We have an oversized glass parrot mug from the Tropicana hotel in Vegas that collects coins. Also my car has a coin tray and the SUV has a coin tray. Every so often I will roll all those coins (I also like rolling coins- it’s very zen for me) and take them to the bank to split between DD and DS in their bank accounts- it’s usually $200+. We also recycle bottles and cans and that’s their money too. DD has over $3k at 12 and DS has around $2k at 8. Some of that is also birthday money that they’ve chosen to deposit.
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Post by zuke on Jun 24, 2024 11:40:24 GMT
I have the big water jug! And boy is it heavy. It doesn’t get much added now that I don’t accumulate very much change. Years ago, I read of a man that had an empty big water jug in his bedroom closet. His bedroom was on the second floor. He would fill it with the change in his pockets every day. It got very heavy yet he kept adding it it. One day, that water jug fell through his closet floor and straight into his living room! Good thing no one was there to get killed by this! I think of that often. We have a vase that is about 14" tall that my husband puts his change in. I have 2 pottery change jars that I put mine into. Our big water jug has shells in it now. We empty the jars every few years and typically have a couple hundred dollars of change in them! One time we had a little over $300 in them. Now it's a lot less because we don't use cash as often as we used to. However much we accumulate, we take on the next vacation! It's always a surprise! |
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Post by mollycoddle on Jun 24, 2024 12:10:31 GMT
Yes. I tend to accumulate change, and every so often, I cash it in.
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Post by bklyngal62 on Jun 24, 2024 12:40:22 GMT
I did but haven't had one since my move. Last time I cashed out my coins I got a little over $500 after what Coinstar took. I was not happy with how much coinstar took.
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Post by peabay on Jun 24, 2024 12:46:46 GMT
Yes. In the laundry room.
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Post by twistedscissors on Jun 24, 2024 12:55:49 GMT
We have a big vase, holds around $300 if my DH hasn’t took out all the quarters for car wash. 😂. Used to roll it every year around Christmas and split it between the girls.
I use primarily cash to pay for most things. I try to use exact change, but my purse was heavy the other day and I emptied it and had $22 in change that took to gas station next door to my salon and traded for cash.
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Post by needmysanity on Jun 25, 2024 12:16:54 GMT
We have a couple sitting around (small milk jars from local dairy). Like someone else mentioned they don't fill up as quickly as they used to since we don't use cash that often.
Our son took them to our bank last week and they totaled $98. We were both surprised it was that much.
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Post by scrappert on Jun 25, 2024 12:25:00 GMT
Yes, one is a penny jar the other for the rest of the coins.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 25, 2024 13:50:36 GMT
Dear god, do NOT do the big jug of change. It takes forever to fill and 10 forevers to roll it all- and ours was only a big pretzel jug. It was about 40% full - it was over $600, but not worth the time and effort sitting on the floor to roll it. 100% this. Please for the love of all that’s holy, don’t do it. As someone who used to work at a bank that had a coin counter I can tell you from experience that those big 5 gallon water bottles with the skinny neck are THE WORST to get the coins out of once it’s even remotely full. Whenever someone came in with one of those you didn’t want to be the person tasked with running it through the counter because it meant spending literal hours sitting on the floor, with the bottle on its side, poking at the coins through the neck of the bottle with a letter opener to get the coins to come trickling out. Contrary to popular belief, just tipping the bottle upside down will not make the coins come flowing out. To answer the question though, we do have a bunch of random cups, jars and piles of coins laying around the house. I tend to spend my change as I accumulate it but DH tosses his in a big qallon sized pickle jar with a wide mouth. It’s about 4/5 full and he really should take it in. I have a little laundry detergent cup in the laundry room that I toss the change I find in the bottom of the washer or dryer into. There’s also a Dixie cup in the kitchen that’s full of random coins, and DD has a piggy bank that she keeps her dollar and half dollar coins in. |
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